Minns, Allan Glaisyer (1858–1930)

Richard Charles Maguire

Minns, Allan Glaisyer (1858–1930)

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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Abstract

The grandfather of Allan Glaisyer Minns (1858-1930) had emigrated from Britain to the Caribbean where he became a planter and owner of enslaved people, with whom he had children, including Minns’ father. Born in the Bahamas, Minns followed his brother to London, studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital and set up in medical practice in Thetford, Norfolk. In 1904 he became mayor of Thetford, the first known black mayor of an English town.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication status	Published - Sep 2016

2 Book
1 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Plantation Slavery, Jamaica and Absentee Ownership: The Burtons of Norfolk, 1788–1846
Maguire, R., 2024, Boydell Press. 240 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Africans in East Anglia, 1467-1833
Maguire, R., 1 Aug 2021, Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 285 p. (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; vol. 41)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Harbord, Edward, third Baron Suffield (1781–1835)
Maguire, R., 12 Aug 2021, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

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Minns, Allan Glaisyer (1858–1930)

Abstract

Research output

Plantation Slavery, Jamaica and Absentee Ownership: The Burtons of Norfolk, 1788–1846

Africans in East Anglia, 1467-1833

Harbord, Edward, third Baron Suffield (1781–1835)

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